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At the regular meeting held at Columbia College, Tuesday even- 
ing, Dec. 9th, the President occupied the chair and 27 persons were 
present. Mr. Hollick showed specimens of Mitchella repens with 
leafy berries from Tottenville, S. I., where they are abundant. 
Reference was made to an article on the same subject in Bulletin, 
Vol. X., No. I, by W. R. Dudley, where a full description is given. 
Miss Knight showed specimens of the same plant from Stowe, 
Vt., having the calyx-teeth developed into long bearded, petal-like 
parts. 
Dr. Britton showed a specimen of Botrychium matricaricBfolium 
from Sussex Co., N. J., a fern new to the State. 
Mr. Schrenk stated that he had discovered submerged leaves in 
Brasenia peltafa, a fact which is not mentioned by either Gray or 
Wood. They were small and thin and were not covered with gluten as 
are the stems and under surfaces of the floating ones. 
Mr. P. H. Dudley read an account of the structure of an old rail- 
road tie which had been in use thirty-one years on the N. Y. C. & 
H, R. R. R., showing photo-micrograph of the same. 
Miss Knight showed fruit of Salisburia adiantifolia from Central 
Park, where it has fruited abundantly this year. 
Dr. Britton read the following note on The Northward Range of 
Pentstemon Digitalis, Nutt.— This plant extends much further north 
than has generally been supposed. Dr. Gray in his Synoptical Flora 
reduces Nuttall's species to P. Icevigatus, Solander, var. Digitalis, 
Gray, and gives its range " Virginia to Illinois and Arkansas." I 
have received a specimen from Mr. C. E. Smith ticketed " Tinicum, 
Del. Co., Penn.; this increases its range 150 miles northeastward." 
On June i8th of the present year Dr. H. H. Rusby and I found it 
growmg m great profusion in a low meadow below the month of Van 
Campen's Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, in Warren Co., 
N. J., and also at another place a few miles further down the Dela- 
ware Valley above the Water Gap. In these localities the plant is 
certamly mdigenous. Dr. G. N. Best has communicated specimens 
from the vicmity of Rosemont, Hunterdon Co., N. J., still further 
down the valley, with a note reporting the species indigenous at that 
pomt. Fmally, on June 2 ist I discovered a patch of it in a field back 
of Newburgh, N. Y. There were here but a few plants and they may 
have been introduced, though I then formed the opinion that it was 
native. 
